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This is a balance sheet of the medical service in la Chaux-de-Fonds schools for the last five years (1975-1979). The activities of the School Medical Service (SMS) are clinical and paraclinical examinations, immunizations, and tuberculin tests, as well as health information. The number of students
A middle-aged woman with obesity, hyperlipidaemia and diet-controlled diabetes was referred for resistant hypertension. Her blood pressure (BP) was uncontrolled on five medications, including a diuretic. Physical exam revealed a systolic ejection murmur, and ECHO demonstrated moderate hypertrophy.
Adipositas cordis is a rare cardiomyopathy characterized by diffuse fatty infiltration of the ventricular myocardium or interventricular septum. This occurs without myocardial cell destruction, unlike arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. A 40-year-old obese woman was found to have a
Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a rare congenital ciliopathy characterised by rod-cone dystrophy, postaxial polydactyly, central obesity, mental retardation, hypogonadism and renal dysfunction. A 45-year-old Indian man presented with New York Heart Association class 2 dyspnoea of 3 months duration.
BACKGROUND
The Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS) is an autosomal recessive multiple congenital anomaly/mental retardation syndrome caused by a defect in cholesterol synthesis. Affected individuals have dysmorphism, short stature, failure to thrive, microcephaly, multiple congenital malformations,
The subject of this report is a 57-year-old obese, hypertensive woman who had been well until the onset of severe chest pain and hypotension. She had to be defibrillated four times on her way to the hospital. The diagnosis of acute inferior-posterior infarction was made by electrocardiogram (ECG)
A total of 17,130 children of both sexes born in 1964 and living in Hungary, USSR, GDR and Cuba were examined in 1977. The children were grouped in upper (U) and lower (L) blood pressure groups and 3,640 children were re-examined in 1978-1981. The parents' age, smoking habits, marital status, the
From 17 634 children born in 1964 and screened in 1977 two sample groups were selected: 10% of children from the upper 5% of the systolic and diastolic blood pressure distribution curves (95th percentile and above) were taken to form an "upper" group, and 10% from the remainder as a "lower" group.
Staphylococcus lugdunensis (S. lugdunensis) is a coagulase negative staphylococcus (CoNS) that can cause destructive infective endocarditis. S. lugdunensis, unlike other CoNS, should be considered to be a pathogen. We report the first case of S. lugdunensis endocarditis causing ventricular septal
PRESENTING FEATURES: A 70-year-old African American man was admitted with a history of fever, chills, and malaise of several days' duration. His past medical history was notable for end-stage renal disease requiring hemodialysis, coronary artery disease, and aortic stenosis requiring a bioprosthetic